Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ~ Alexandre Dumas

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well. ~ E. Merrill Root

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~ Albert Camus

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness, to some elation, is to others, mere stagnation. ~ Amy Lowell

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. ~ André Gide

When I was a small child… I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong. Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ~ Anna Pavlova

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ~ Anne Frank

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ~ Aristotle

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness. ~ Bertha Damon

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